6.8 gb in my iPhone 5 mail account? Nothing showing. Why?

1/4 of my available gb are tied up in my mail account. Nothing there. How do I reduce this?
Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.

All the space may be tied up with, for example, trash in your email account.
The way to retrieve the space is to restore your iPhone. Plug it in to iTunes, let it sync, then choose "Restore" from the iPhone's summary page in iTunes.

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1. On my iPhone 4S in the Mail app, if I go into the Mailboxes and look at my Inboxes it shows 4,294,967,289 mail messages (see screen shot). This number is clearly incorrect, as I don't have any unread emails, and my accounts don't have anywhere near this number of emails. Of course my mail icon on the home screen doesn't show anything because the number is (incorrectly) too large.
2. On my iPad 2 in the Mail app (with the same iCloud and gmail accounts all synced up), if I go into the Mailboxes and look at my Inboxes it shows no unread mail messages, which is correct. If I get a new message, then it will show the number of unread messages accurately (1 or 2 or whatever).
Has anyone seen this problem? I deleted all my mail accounts in the iPhone and added them back again, but that did not correct the problem. I am up to date on all software as well.
Thanks for the help.

The number 4,294,967,290 corresponds to negative 6 in base 32.
It's a bug with the way gmail is reporting unread messages, or the way your iPhone is counting them. A restore should fix it.
Short of restoring your iPhone try this: Make sure you have read all your messages and the unread message count remains 4,294,967,290. Then, send six messages to your gmail account. Do not open them.
If that resets your "unread mail" count to zero then never open those six messages

Mail accounts not showing up when in iTunes.

I'm trying to rearrange the order of my (5) mail accounts by following directions found on a post titled "How to change order of mail accounts in iPhone 4 mail app". One of the steps involves viewing and modifying the list of mail accounts while in iTunes.
As I mentioned I have 5 mail accounts, two mobile me, two yahoo and one gmail. All are active and I receive and send on them with my phone regularly. Only one of my Mobile Me accounts shows up in the list in the iTunes window.
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Syncing calendar events direct with Outlook via the iTunes sync process is not associated with an email account.
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Deselecting an email account under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes after the email account settings have been transferred to your iPhone followed by a sync does not delete the email account from your iPhone.
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1. I send an e-mail to a friend from my aol account.
2. The friend replies and I receive the e-mail in my aol account.
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Add a Folder
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3. Select a folder from the "Select folder" menu to place it on a homescreen. You can adjust its position once its on the homescreen.
Add a Shortcut
1. Press Menu hard key, press + Add,
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3. Select a shortcut from the "Select shortcut" menu to place it on a homescreen. You can adjust its position once its on the homescreen.
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I recently got a New MacBook Pro, now running 10.8.1. My Old Black MacBook was Running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
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Mail accounts not showing after restoring a profile backup

Followed the instructions here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb#w_restoring-a-profile-backup for manually "Restoring to a different location".
Re-stated TB and only "local Folders" show in the home tab. The emails for my previous main account are there minus what was on the "inbox" for that account.
The rest of the email accounts were created in the account settings but are not showing in the home tab (no emails).
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The Local Directory path "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxx.default\Mail\pop.1and1-2.com" is not suitable for message storage. Please choose another directory.
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Normally the instructions work fine, but in your case there seems to be a glich. I've heard that some issue can occur if the Profile has been moved from one pc to another and previous pc directory used :
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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
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* Help > Troubleshooting Information
* click on 'show folder ' button
* A new window opens.
'''Close Thunderbird now - this is important.'''
The Profile folder will show a 'Mail' folder amongst other files and folders.
scroll down to see:
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Locate your backup profile and copy paste the abook.mab and history.mab files into the new Profile overwriting the new blank files of same name.
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* localstore.rdf - Toolbar and window layout size/position settings.
* mailviews.dat - Defines your current message view
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click on one of the mail accounts.
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Thanks for the question. You are in luck! We have a resource that deals with this specific issue. If the issue is isolated to your Gmail account, you may need to unlock the account from Google’s website:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3058
Resolution
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2. If you have other email accounts on the device, check if those accounts can send and receive email.
3. If the issue is isolated only to the affected Gmail account, visit this website:https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha.
Complete the form to unlock the account.
4. If the issue persists, follow this Google support article.
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Checking POP email on iphone disables mail account on my MacPro?

Hello
Just set up new 3G iphone and have set it up to receive and send email from two accounts, I believe both are POP (one of which is a .ca.rr Road Runner account; other hosted on Bluhost). The iPhone is receiving and sending email from these accounts just fine. However, if I recently accessed mail on my Iphone, and I happen to be at my MacPro computer and my Mail application is open at the same time, and I go to check mail on the MacPro.... exclamation points will appear next to my Road Runner account (as if it cannot connect to that account/been disconnected to it). I either need to (A) wait a few minutes from after my phone has accessed the account, or (B) I need to shut my phone off for the exclamation points to go away and I can check mail again on the Mac. My other email account (the Bluhost one) seems unaffected and never loses connection.
Generally, if I am at my Macpro, I do not need to be checking email on my iphone, but I don't want to have to shut my phone off when I am using my Macpro at home. In summary, checking email on my iphone is temporarily disconnecting my ability to check the same email account from my Macpro.
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Anyone experience similar or have suggestions?
If I need to provide more info, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!

You're welcome.
What I like about POP though is how it downloads an independent copy to my computer INBOX. From what I understand, IMAP keeps the copy on the server. Yes, I could create a folder in my Mail app on my computer, and drag the email to that folder, thereby saving a copy on my hard drive. But sometimes I just want to leave mails in my INBOX without having to organize.
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As far as configuration, I am also using AT&T SMTP for outgoing mail on the iphone. Without the AT&T SMTP, I couldn't send mail on the 3G network trying to use the RR servers. This also works when I hook into the WiFi.
Does this work when connected to any wi-fi network regardless the internet service provider being used for internet access with various wi-fi networks that you access? If so, this is good, but not a concern with an authenticated SMTP server.
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